Cory DoctorowIf I found myself at loose ends, trying to find a project to devote the rest of my life to, I’d be pitching funders on building a national, open access portal to build an educational commons.
Source: American education has all the downsides of standardization, none of the upsides by Cory Doctorow
Although it was not necessarily ‘national’ or ‘open access’, one of the things that was attempted by the Ultranet was an educational commons. The challenge I found with this was around mindset. Even though staff were paid by the government, many teachers saw resources created as their own, not something to be added to a collective repository.
I kind of get the feeling that this maybe what Bonfire is trying to achieve. I have not given it enough time to know though.